Actress Tia Bhatia Attending
From one of India’s most celebrated directors, Deepa Mehta, comes this profound analysis of one of the country’s most notorious atrocities: the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Dehli. Five men on board and the driver raped her, beat her male companion, and threw them into the street. The woman died of her injuries two weeks later. Without knowing the specifics of her last moments, Mehta sought to take a thoroughly different approach to the story, and working with theater artist Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, improvised with her actors to create the script. Seeking to delve into the sociological and psychological roots of the men’s actions, while contrasting with the victim’s life, the result is a challenging and insightful hybrid of fact and fiction. “[I]t may haunt you for weeks.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Director’s Biography
Deepa Mehta: “I do hope that [Anatomy of Violence] brings up discussion about how society is complicit in how we bring up our children…,” says Deepa Mehta in the Toronto Star. Her films Bollywood/Hollywood ('02), Water ('05), Midnight’s Children ('12), and Beeba Boys ('15) have all appeared at MSPIFF.
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